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主 kanji
lord, chief, master, main thing, principal
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
シュスシュウ
Kun readings
ぬしおもあるじ
Words with 主
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —小主観small ego
- —商店主storekeeper; shopkeeper; proprietor of a shop
- —主応力principal stress
- —主信号main signal; traffic signal
- —主要部main part; key part; head (of a phrase)
- —工場主factory owner
- —君主制monarchy
- —農場主farmer; agriculturalist
- —主目的main purpose; primary objective
- —女主人mistress (of the house); hostess; landlady; proprietress
- —非主要minor
- —主要因primary factor; main cause
- —農園主farm owner; plantation owner
- —動作主performer of an action; agent; actor
- —主祷文the Lord's Prayer
- —主原因principal cause
- —主キーmaster key
- —反主流anti-mainstream; fringe
- —主演作movie in which ... has the starring role
- —代当主the n-th generation head of a family